Sunny days and comic books

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 14, 2015



Summer here is hot and dry, but it's so short that sometimes it feels more like a coffee break in an endless winter than a real season. People who live in the prairies know that each summer day has to be savoured - tucked away as a little memory for ...

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An Analysis of a Polarizing Character

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 10, 2015



It seems that I get into a very opinionated argument whenever the topic of discussion veers toward Neon Genesis Evangelion. Usually it is about how the Evangelion movies are awesome and how the main character is not so awesome. That being said, it has been twenty years since the mid-1990s ...

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Those images that get stuck in your head

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 7, 2015



Is there a word for these?

I’m talking about those things that you automatically start drawing when you have a piece of paper and no specific ideas in mind. The images that find their way into the margins of your notebooks, onto napkins in restaurants…or on a whiteboard ...



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LAST CHANCE - Submit your votes for the 2015 DD Awards!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 31, 2015



If you haven't voted yet in the 2015 Drunk Duck Awards, do it now! No really, right now. Click this link and fill out the form! Quick!

For real though - ballots close in two days at 6pm CDT on August 2nd.



We would also like to officially recognize bravo1102 ...







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The 2015 DD Awards needs YOU!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 24, 2015



Let's get this year's Drunk Duck Awards off the ground!

First of all, you can contribute in a really easy but totally necessary way: VOTE!
The awards can't happen if we don't have nominees! You don't have to fill out every category, so even if ...




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Exploring new comic book stores

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 17, 2015



Recently I had the pleasure of spending a few day's in my country's capital city, Ottawa. Among museum trips, walks along the canal, and an awesome sound and light show at our parliament building, I managed to coerce my best friend into visiting a couple of comic book ...

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IMPORTANT - Server Downtime on Saturday (Also - Happy Canada Day/Fourth of July!)

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 3, 2015

IMPORTANT:
Ozoneocean is scheduling some server down time for the early hours of Saturday morning LA time
The site should be very quiet then. he needs to shut it down so that he can sort out a cheaper hosting plan with our server host.
It shouldn't take more than ...


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The Times They Are A-Changin'

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 29, 2015



Five years ago I was sitting at a dinner table with an older, conservative crowd of family friends when the topic of same-sex marriage was brought up. I added my thoughts to the discussion with the best example of recent history I could muster up at that time. I said ...

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Fan Service in Comics

HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 26, 2015



This post was inspired ozoneocean's forum thread about sexism, as well as a recent update by JustNoPoint. (Quick note: none of my comments about fan service are directed at JNP's work! It was just his joking about fan service that had me thinking about it.)

“Fan service” can ...



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Last Call - Trophies and Input for the 2015 DD awards!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 19, 2015



A reminder - trophies for the DD awards must be submitted by June 21st! If you were planning to submit a design, now is the time to do it. Voting will follow on June 22-24.

Trophies can be submitted to this thread or sent to Niccea via PQ.

This is also ...





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